Larger Than Life: The Art of Ming Fay

Parker Tao Fay is the Director of Ming Fay Studio, where he manages all aspects of the artist’s studio and legacy. His responsibilities include coordinating and installing exhibitions, developing the Ming Fay artist archive—the first part of which is currently housed at New York University’s Libraries—and overseeing the publication of Ming Fay: Journey into Nature (2022), an expansive monograph on Fay’s work. He has played a key role in numerous exhibitions of Ming Fay’s art at institutions such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Grounds for Sculpture, the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, and the Hong Kong Museum of Art. In addition to his work with the Studio, Parker is an independent strategic consultant working across the international development, nonprofit, and corporate sectors. He holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University.

Yng-Ru Chen (she/her) is the Founder and CEO of the Boston-area-based Praise Shadows Art Gallery and is a co-founder of the new Arrival Art Fair taking place in 2025 in North Adams, MA. She sits on the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. She previously worked at MoMA PS1, Sotheby's, Asia Society, and Tattly. www.praiseshadows.com
 

Eugenie Tsai is a curator and writer based in New York. From 2007–2023, she was the John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator, Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she oversaw the Contemporary collection, and organized loan and collection exhibitions. Exhibitions she organized include Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon (2022–2023), Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven (2022), The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time (2021–2022), and KAWS: WHAT PARTY (2021). She also curated Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic (2015), co-curated Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and Beyond (2014–2015), and LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital (2013). Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, she organized Robert Smithson (2004), which debuted at MOCA LA, before going on to the Dallas Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art (the exhibition received the International Art Critics first place award for best monographic show of 2005), and Robert Smithson Unearthed (1999) at the Wallach Art Center, Columbia University. Eugenie worked at MoMA/PS1 as Director of Curatorial Affairs (2006–2007), and at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1994–2000) in several curatorial positions.
 

Gabrielle Niu works as the Assistant Curator of the Collection and Exhibitions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She curated this summer’s exhibitions, Ming Fay: Edge of the Garden at the Gardner and Where We Meet: Imagining Gardens and Futures at Pao Arts Center. Previously, she worked at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Department of East Asian Art. She has taught at Indiana University Bloomington, Yale University, and Boston University. Her PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania.